9/15/10 Zheng He or Christopher Columbus Was Christopher Columbus the first to discover America? Nowadays if you ask someone who was the first to discover America‚ most would say Christopher Columbus. But if you ask a real historian or a history professor‚ they would go back as far as 70 years before Columbus discovered America. Columbus may have been the first to discover America‚ but evidence shows that there was another man who discovered America 70 years before Columbus. This man was a 15th
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2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? A: 2. Zinn’s thesis is that Christopher Columbus was not a hero as most history books portray him; he was dishonest to those who supported his journeys and often offering them fake promises. He was also a cruel abuser to the Arawak Indians. Q: 3. According to Zinn‚ how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books? A: 3. Zinn states that in many traditional history books Columbus is portrayed as a hero or almost holy‚ heroic figure that risked his
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got the let’s do something insane face you’ve grown to hate. You don’t know what he’s going to ask you but you know it’s crazy. He says‚ “Want to travel across the sea with me?” Through word of mouth‚ he’s been asked by a man‚ who goes by Christopher Columbus‚ to travel with him and eighty other men on a ship across the Atlantic. It’s crazy‚ it’s reckless but will you go? Why would a person living in Spain decide to pack up and leave everything he was use to in search for new lands? Did these
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Comparison of Christopher Columbus’s Letters A Comparison of Christopher Columbus’s Two Letters Kim Horner From the Book The Norton Anthology – American Literature A Comparison of Christopher Columbus’s Two Letters In the book The Norton Anthology-American Literature there are two voyages that are writen about by Christopher Columbus. I will compare the two and explaine some of the contrasts between the two. As they are two very different voyages‚ 10 years apart‚ Columbus has emotions and
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historians have found evidence that Columbus has researched the works of significant scientists and explorers like Ptolemy‚ Marco Polo‚ and Eratosthenes.1 With their influence and his own naturally stubborn will‚ Columbus set out prove that a journey across the Atlantic to Chin and Japan was possible. In order to pay for voyage‚ and to gain the fame and power he desired‚ Columbus needed to find support from the royal court of a European nation. In 1483‚ Columbus approached the royal court of Portugal
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benefits. For instance a clear insight is offered as to what Caribbean life was like before the arrival of the Europeans and the impact that their arrival had upon Caribbean life and indigenous life in general. 1 Before the arrival of Christopher Columbus‚ the indigenous people lived in peace and harmony. They were simple people who mainly survived on simple subsistence farming‚ trading as well as hunting and gathering. They also had a very complex social and political organizational structure
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Vinaland. He just explored the territory and returned home. Christopher Columbus – a Spanish explorer who set sail in 1492 to search for a trade route to China. With three ships (Nina‚ Pinta‚ and Santa Maria)‚ he landed near present- day Bahamas. He brought back Native American slaves‚ tobacco‚ gold‚ potato corn‚ and silver to Spain. He went on a total of 4 trips. Juan Ponce de Leon – an explorer who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to America. He defeated native revolts‚ made
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both the conquered peoples and the Europeans. Although the Exploration benefited many people‚ it negatively affected the people in the New World enormously. Christopher Columbus decided to travel to the New World where he thought he has discovered Asia when in reality he had reached what is today the Bahamas. It was only acceptable for Columbus to assume his discovery due to his lack of knowledge of geography. After his discovery‚ there were various exchanges occurring with goods‚
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good hygiene and didn’t wear horns on their helmets. All of these are myths and legends but all around‚ these vikings explored the world and without these people we wouldn’t have the idea to explore the world like Christopher Columbus did. These vikings basically gave Christopher Columbus the idea to
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when I started reading this piece‚ I still had the memory of the previous article fresh in my head. Christopher Columbus was the one who started all that tragedy‚ wasn’t he? If he had never discovered the Indians and their land‚ the natives could have lived peaceful lives on their own. That is not the way things went down though‚ and at the cost of the natives’ peace and even their lives‚ Columbus found a gold mine; which can be interpreted in two ways. One: He found a pretty primitive population
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